Since launching, America Tonight has been dedicated to exploring the ways the U.S. justice system polices, prosecutes and punishes.
We've dug deep into policies that have drawn fire, from how Arizona's privatized prison health care system is playing out, and whether U.S. prosecutors are forcing guilty pleas on drug defendants, to whether police are profiling transgender Americans, and the health questions new lethal injection drugs raise. We've also probed innovative new efforts, from a new policing model in Camden, N.J., to former prisoners working to stop violence.
Explore more of our reporting about America's justice system below.
Eric Garner’s chokehold death put a spotlight on efforts to reform the NYPD from inside and outside the department
In 129 years, no Wisconsin review board has faulted a police officer for killing someone; could a new law change that?
Since the state's new law governing deadly force investigations, no police officer has been found at fault
Alabamians who can't pay a fine may end up in a vicious cycle of fees and even jail time – and someone's profiting
With a landmark ruling in June, the campaign against the sacred cow of education has just begun
By counseling the city's ‘most lethal’ young men, an innovative program is helping make Richmond, California, safer
An America Tonight investigation finds dozens of cases of neglect in Arizona’s privatized prison health care system
One Massachusetts chemist may have contaminated more than 40,000 criminal cases; now the state has to fix it
The LA County jail system is the largest in the country; critics say its conditions are also some of the harshest
Death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado has a little more than 90 days before he’s due to step into the death chamber
Most states have privatized prison health care to cut costs, but the ACLU says some inmates face pain or even death.
After a decorated career locking people up, Bernie Kerik ended up in prison himself, and now has a whole new view
In Wake County, North Carolina, black students make up 92 percent of long-term suspensions
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